Download or read book Miller's Asheboro, N. C. City Directory, 1953-1954, Vol. 7 written by Southern Directory Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Miller's Asheboro, N. C. City Directory, 1953-1954, Vol. 7: Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, Buyers' Guide, Numerical Telephone Directory Halfway between the Atlantic beaches and the Great Smokies, in the heart of the agriculturally rich and industrially thriving Piedmont sec tion of North Carolina, Asheboro is the county seat of 800-square-mi1e Randolph County and is located nearly, if not exactly, in the geographic al center of the state. It is about 180 miles east of Asheville, and is approximately the same number of miles northwest of Wilmington. It is 26 miles south of Greensboro and 56 miles north of Pinehurst, the famous Winter resort. The elevation of the city is 860 feet above sea level. The heart of the business district is on the highest level between two extensive water sheds, giving the city adequate drainage and freedom from floods. Streams on the eastern side of the city flow into Deep River and thence into the Cape Fear, While drainage on the western side of the city is into the Uwharrie River and thence into the Yadkin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.